Member in the RTC Local Read-Only Administrators group on all servers in a specified pool or on the local Standard Edition server.

ReadOnlyRole on the pool or server RTC and RTCConfig databases.

Domain where servers are to be administered.

You can delegate setup and administration in the following ways:

To grant setup permissions, you can use either the Setup (SetupEE.exe or SetupSE.exe) deployment tool or the LcsCmd.exe command-line tool.

To grant administration permissions, you must use the LcsCmd.exe command-line tool to delegate any of the following:

Server administration

User administration

Read-only user administration

Read-only server administration

Note:

Read-only administration is useful for monitoring, troubleshooting, and other activities that do not require changes to the system.

The topics in this section provide more information about delegating setup and administration.

Delegating Setup

Some organizations do not want to grant membership in the DomainAdmins group to users or groups who are deploying Office Communications Server. In this case, delegating setup provides a way for you to grant these users or groups the subset of permissions required to install and activate servers running Office Communications Server. You can grant permissions to deploy Office Communications Server by using either the Setup deployment tool (SetupEE.exe for Enterprise Edition server consolidated configuration, or SetupSE.exe for Standard Edition server) or the LcsCmd.exe command-line tool.